RUSSIA & UKRAINE: JRL 2014-#127 contents with links :: Monday 9 June 2014
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Johnson’s Russia List :: 2014-#127 :: 9 June 2014
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1. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Happiness is sharing dacha memories. Tomatoes, bikes and boyfriends: Russians and Americans share their dacha memories.
2. The Daily Telegraph (UK): Ukraine must correct its chaotic response. A heavy-handed military operation is alienating the very people Kiev should be winning over.
3. Interfax: Avakov pledges to involve all Interior Ministry combat, patrol units in operation in eastern Ukraine.
4. www.rt.com: Slavyansk under fire, without water and power as Kiev troops resume shelling.
5. www.rt.com: Not safe for our children!’ Mothers with kids flee Kiev crackdown in Lugansk.
6. The Voice of Russia: Most European countries not ready for Ukraine to join EU – France’s FM.
7. Boston Globe: Marcela Escobari, Ukraine’s real problem, in four graphs.
8. Ron Paul Institute: Daniel McAdams, Washington Post At War With Reality on Ukraine.
9. Reuters: Russia, Ukraine to hold gas crisis talks as deadline looms.
10. Wall Street Journal: Ukraine President Takes On Other Crisis: a Broken Economy. Poroshenko Accuses Separatists of Damaging Economy, Says Violence Must Stop This Week.
11. Reuters: Ukraine’s Poroshenko plans new team to take on Putin, build ties with West.
12. Kyiv Post: English-language translation of Poroshenko’s inaugural address on June 7.
13. Interfax: Poroshenko’s categorical position on federalization, Russian language leads to deadlock – Russian analyst.
14. RIA Novosti: Russians See Poroshenko as Promoting Western, not Ukrainian Interests – Survey.
15. Carnegie Moscow Center: Dmitri Trenin, Russia vs. the West: End of Round One.
16. Russia Direct: Pavlo Verkhniatskyi, D-Day shows compromise between Putin, Poroshenko is possible. The 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy seems to have given a green light to ending the Ukrainian crisis, but there’s still a lot of work to do.
17. RIA Novosti: Russia Urges New OSCE Envoy to Ukraine to Engage in Reconciliation Efforts.
18. Moscow Times: Sergei Markov, Poroshenko Must Avert War With Russia.
19. Valdai Discussion Club: Rostislav Ishchenko, Poroshenko: Legitimacy, Challenges, Actions and Opportunities.
20. Reuters: Russia would react to NATO build-up near borders: minister.
21. http://geostrategicforecasting.net: Gordon Hahn, Cause of the Ukraine Crisis: It’s NATO Expansion Stupid.
22. RFE/RL: Rumblings In The West: Ukraine’s Other Ethnic Quandary.
23. http://geostrategicforecasting.net: Gordon Hahn, The Ukrainian Groups and their Ties to the European Right Fascist Ties You Will Never Hear About.
24. Russia Direct: Maurizio Martellini, Augusto Sagnotti, and Ewan Sirtori: Ukraine’s Pandora box: Is 2014 Kiev next 1914 Sarajevo? If pressures acting on Ukraine are not defused – such as by decentralizing the powers of the Ukrainian government – we could be looking at a potentially explosive situation in Europe.
25. Financial Times: ‘Masterly’ Russian operations in Ukraine leave Nato one step behind.
26. www.ipolitics.ca (Canada): Michael Harris, Harper sinks to new lows with cold war posturing.
27. www.opendemocracy.net: Ilya Vasyunin, The battle for Donetsk. People are not yet calling the situation in Eastern Ukraine a ‘civil war,’ but the battle for Donetsk might change that.
28. New York Times: STEVEN PIFER, JOHN HERBST and WILLIAM TAYLOR, Don’t Forget Crimea.
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29. Russia Beyond the Headlines: Nicotine nation: The story of Russia’s addiction to the cigarette.
30. Moscow Times: Muscovites Turn Out for City Duma Primaries.
31. Reuters: Russia to delay privatisation plans again – report.
32. Moscow Times: 5 Insider Stories From Russia’s Fledgling Start-Up Market.
33. Moscow Times: Regions to Gain Control of Russia’s Special Economic Zones.
34. Dances With Bears: John Helmer, KREMLIN LOSES FEAR OF REGIONAL DEMONSTRATIONS – THE STEEL OLIGARCHS ISSUE PINK “PRODUCTION RELEASE” SLIPS.
35. www.rt.com: Russian companies ‘de-dollarize’ and switch to yuan, other Asian currencies.
36. Interfax: “Foreign agent” NGOs compelled to post regular reports on their activity, expenditures.
37. Interfax: Golos association to contest inclusion on registry of NGOs-foreign agents in court.
38. Reuters: Two jailed for life for murder of Russia’s Politkovskaya.
39. RIA Novosti: Politkovskaya Case Russia’s Biggest Justice Achievement – Prosecutor.
40. www.rt.com: Return of Stalingrad name only possible with national referendum – official.
41. Moscow Times: Danila Bochkarev, China Deal is About Geography, Not Politics.
42. The National Interest: Nikolas K. Gvosdev, Russia’s Eurasian Union: Part of a Master Plan. To maximize Russia’s influence on the world stage.
43. Russia Direct: Europe and China may be leaning towards Russia, but not Hillary Clinton. RD Think Tank Roundup: Russia’s pivot towards China, elections for the EU parliament and the plight of US-Russia relations are in the spotlight of Russia’s leading experts.
44. Washington Post: Jackson Diehl, In Russia, one legislator stands against the Putin agenda. (Ilya Ponomarev)
